KESC 11 review: Tea Inn

Despite our love of Eat Street Challenge, there was a lack of enthusiasm about Tea Inn leading up to last Friday. Everyone has been there, we know all the food tastes the same despite all the MSG, it's a cheap fill with asian movies on the TVs, and the restaurant is like a cafeteria, blue and yellow.

Having low expectations, five challengers met just after 6pm and examined the ENORMOUS menu. There are 700 or so things to choose from. Jess ordered shan dong chicken and dumplings and Elsie ordered seafood noodles, and Jess K, Sharon and George got a 3 person banquet. The banquet is, unlike most banquets, very good value, with bubble drinks and steamed veg, and the chosen meals: honey chicken, beef black bean and shan dong.The food was actually quite nice! Not the best in town (there were little bits of broken bone in my shan dong, and it was not garlicy enough), but not as bad as I remembered in the past. There is a lot of it, and it's still pretty cheap. The banquet is an excellent feed and was around $11 each. The mains are about the same price, and you can save half for leftovers.

It was a solid 3.5 out of 5. We reckon a lazy susan wouldn't go astray.